London has been battered by 50mph winds that have felled trees and caused travel chaos. Powerful gusts swept across the capital as the Met Office issued a yellow "be aware" weather alert for most of the country.

The Beckhams have upset neighbours over plans to install air conditioning at their London home. David Beckham and his wife Victoria, pictured, spent £31.5 million on the detached Holland Park house in September 2013 — paying cash. They have spent the past 18 months preparing plans to transform it into a family home.

The battle between Hewlett Packard and former management of Autonomy over the botched $11.1 billion purchase of the software company has opened up a new front, with both of parties taking legal action against each other in the UK courts.

It has become a commonplace that London is a very different place to the rest of Britain; that seems to be true in politics too — in surprising ways. The race nationally may be a dead heat at present but as YouGov’s poll for this paper shows today, Labour is well ahead in the capital, leading the Conservatives by 11 points, 45 to 34. Meanwhile, Ukip is markedly weaker here than in many parts of the country, at just eight per cent.

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